People
People (undergraduate and graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers) have come from close and from far (Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Argentina, Bangladesh, China, India, Sweden, Jordan, Spain, Venezuela) to work in the Soft Matter Lab and learn a combination of experimental techniques and analytical tools.
News 2011
- Edward, Suliman, Anand will present (oral/poster) at the ACS Colloids conference in Montreal (June).
- Edward, Suliman, Moorthi, Marek, Anand will present (oral/poster) at the CAP Congress in St. John's (June).
- Suliman Barhoum (left, and Asim, far right, also in Physics) named Fellow of the SGS.
- Edward Hayden and Michael Ducey attend Science (honours) convocation.
- Moorthi Pichumani (Wens' group) joins for the summer.
- Michael Ducey and Matthew Macdonald complete B.Sc. (honours) degrees.
- Hughie Newman starts work at Nikon.
Current Researchers in the Soft Matter Laboratory:
- Ian Wilding, Undergraduate research, joint with Kris Poduska and Martin Plumer (2011 - )
- Moorthi Pichumani, Visiting PhD student (Wenceslao González-Viñas Lab), U. Navarra (2011)
- Andrew Morrow, Undergraduate research, joint with Erika Merschrod (2010 - )
- Edward Hayden, Graduate student (2011 - )
- Suliman Barhoum, Graduate student, Ph.D. (2008 - )
- Marek Bromberek, Postdoctoral researcher, joint with Ivan Saika-Voivod (2009)
- Hugh Newman, Graduate student, M.Sc. (2009 - ),
- Matthew Seymour, Graduate student, joint with Kris Poduska and Martin Plumer,M.Sc. (2009 - )
- Anand Yethiraj, Associate Professor
Collaborations:
- Luc Beaulieu, Memorial University, Physics & Phys. Oceanography, Image Processing Methods
- Wenceslao González-Viñas, U. Navarra, Physics, Colloidal Pattern Formation.
- Erika Merschrod, Memorial University, Chemistry, Dielectrophoretic patterning of biomaterials.
- Priti Mohanty (P. Schurtenberger lab), Lund University, Microgel Colloids.
- Michael Morrow, Memorial University, Physics & Phys. Oceanography, Bicelle phase transitions.
- Martin Plumer, Memorial University, Physics & Phys. Oceanography, Patterned Magnetic Materials
- Kristin Poduska, Memorial University, Physics & Phys. Oceanography, Patterned Magnetic Materials
- James Polson, U. Prince Edward Island, Physics, Diffusion in Restricted Geometries.
- Ivan Saika-Voivod, Memorial University, Physics & Phys. Oceanography, Colloids in Electric Fields.
- Manuel Valera, Slippery Rock University, Physics, Dipolar Colloids.
Former students/researchers:
- Michael Ducey, Undergraduate research, joint with Mike Morrow (2010 - 2011)
- Matthew Mcdonald, Undergraduate research, joint with Luc Beaulieu (2010 - 2011)
- Edward Hayden, Undergraduate research (2009 - 2010)
- Andrew Bartlett, Undergraduate research (2008 - 2010)
- Danielle Leonard, Undergraduate research (2009 - 2010)
- Maximiliano Giuliani, Visiting Ph.D. student (lab of W. González-Viñas) (2009)
- Corey Kelly, Undergraduate research (2008 - 2009)
- Amit Agarwal, Post-doctoral researcher (2007 - 2008)
- Hugh Newman, MUCEP and Summer undergraduate research (2007 - 2008)
- Manuel Valera, Post-doctoral researcher, joint with Ivan Saika-Voivod (2008)
- Kitty Kumar, M.Sc. (joint with K. Poduska) (2008)
- Swomitra Palit, Graduate student, M.Sc. (2008)
- Ning Li, M.Sc. (2006 - 2008)
- Joshua Abeling, MUCEP undergraduate research (2007 - 2008)
- Gregory Morrow, MUCEP undergraduate research (2007)
- Joe Fitzgerald, NSERC Summer and MUCEP researcher (2006)
- Cristina Arcos Martinez, Visiting graduate student (2006) from the group of Wenceslao González-Viñas
